Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane."
Camels quotes
Camels
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale."
Rebecca West
Novelist, Journalist
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Muhammad
Religious Leader
"If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel."
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"Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market."
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"It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back."
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"Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye."
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"A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel."
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"Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child."
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"The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in."
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